"In the past,everything was fine, but in the last 10 years, there were so many storms,".

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It used to be this big, thick thing and you would go there everyday to look up and everything was in there.

它过去是一份很大很厚的报纸,你每天都会查阅资讯,上面有所有需要的资讯

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It could be normal, everything, that would be a Gaussian, where if you recall there was a mean, and a standard deviation, and most values were going to be close to the mean.

可能是正态分布，也就是高斯分布，只要有平均值和标准偏差值，你就可以进行调用，大部分的值都是集中在平均值附近的。

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